Thurs 20th Sept, 3pm GMT (10am Nunavut)
Watch Doriana’s video diary, direct from Ny-Alesund, Svalbard (duration: 1:10mins). Thank you for all your initial questions! If you are a pupil at Victor Sammurtok School join Doriana online for a quick QA at 3pm GMT (10am Nunavut). Follow the link below!
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Live QA with Doriana following the broadcast

Thurs 20th Sept, 3.30pm GMT (10.30am Nunavut)
Following the broadcast Doriana will be online live from the Arctic for 30 minutes to hear your responses and to answer any more questions. So stay online once you’ve watched the broadcast and follow the link below.
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Doriana’s Live Arctic QA Session

Thurs 20th Sept, 3.30pm GMT (10.30am Nunavut)
Following Doriana’s video diary broadcast she will be online live from the Arctic for 30 minutes to hear your responses and to answer any more questions. The live QA will take place on this page from 3.30pm GMT onwards on Thurs 20th Sept. To take part check back and follow the instructions below.
Watch Doriana’s video diary »
View the initial questions »

How to take part in the Arctic QA

This Arctic QA session will open at 3.30pm (GMT). For 30 minutes following this Doriana will log in and be available to hear your response to her video diary and answer any questions you have.

*IMPORTANT* (After 3.30pm GMT) “Refresh” or “Reload” this page using your web browser “Refresh” button. You will see a comments box appear below. If you are from Victor Sammurtok School login to your account (use the login link in the footer or above the comment box) and then enter your questions and comments for Doriana.

*IMPORTANT* During the session you need to “Refresh” or “Reload” this page every few minutes to see new comments and follow the discussion. If you can’t see anything happening refresh the page!

Doriana in the evening, Ny-Alesund.

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Finally On The Ship, After A Week Of Preparation. We left Longyearbyen At Around 6:30 Supper Time. Then Me, Hailey And Jozef Also Students, Had The First Shift Of Look-Outs. So As Usual, I Was First To Steer the Ship,, I’m So Proud Of Myself!, And I Was The First To Go up In Front of The Ship Where There is A Net We Can Stand On, But I Had To Use A Safety Rope, So I A Limited Area To Walk On.. I Couldn’t Go Right to The Tip That Was BORING!!!. Our Look-Out Shifts Are 2-3 Hours Long, And We’re In 4 Groups Of 3 People per Group. So Far We Haven’t Seen Anything, but Sure Enough We’ll See Something Tomorrow! I’m Finally Feeling Excited, Just Because I Know That I’ll Be Asking Some Scientist Questions About The Future And I’ll Be Doing My Research! Can’t Wait..

In That Case, I Would Like To Place A Bet On My Own Questions. I Bet The Bug Population Back Home Will Keep Growing More And More, And The Weather Will Keep Getting Hotter, And Our Winters Will Keep Getting Shorter, Until We Have No More Lakes And Everything Burns Down And There Is No More life On Earth…LOL, I’m Exaggerating!.Svalbard Is Almost Exactly Like Home, But Their It A Lot Of Mountains!, There Nice Though, Especially When The Sun Shines On Them, Sooo Sweet!.Oh Yeah, And You Can Also Use The Mountains To Steer The Ship.. Well, You Aim Something Towards A Mountain And Of That Thing Is Moving Out Of Place, You Know The Ship Is Turning Slowly, Simple Eh:D. I Really Can’t Wait Until Tomorrows Adventure, Maybe We’ll See Some Animals. Well, Heading To Bed, Which Is Approx. 6 by 2 ½ Feet And My Room Is 6 by 6 Feet, But The Other Kids Have Smaller Rooms, I Feel So Lucky. All Of The Rooms Have Sinks To Wash Up In The Morning And/Or To Wash Our Hands After Using The Toilet, And The Washroom Is 3 Doors Down From My Room. The Washroom Is Approximately 5 Feet By 3 Feet Or 4 Feet by 3 Feet Or 3 By 4. And In The Washrooms (4 Of Them) There is A Toilet And A Shower And Just A Curtain To Separate Them.. Okay Good Night.

Love All

B.

We Just Came From A Long Walk, It Wasn’t Too Bad. We Saw a Old Dead Fox, And A Dead Reindeer, It Looked Young, And We Saw Lots Of Birds Too, But They Were Far. When We Got Back, We Ended Up Seeing A Nanuq, Everybody Went Crazy!, But It Was Really Far And It Seemed Like It Was Following The Way We Walked..

Theres This Guy Who Can Inuktuuq, He Said He Lived in Greenland For Whatever Many Years,, So Now I Don’t Feel So Left Out, Because Before We Got On The Ship Everybody Else Had Someone To Talk To In Their Own Language, But now I’m

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11:32pm
I Have A Look Out Shift At 2 In The Morning Till 4, Just A 2 Hour Shift, But, Yay! I get To Stay Up With The People Back Home. Remember I’m, 7 hours A Head.. The Rest Of Today, We Hardly Did Anything, But We Did Put The Sails Up, It Was Fun, And Hard Work, And It Help Us Stay Warm, Duh. The Temp, I Like Plus 1, So It’s Not Cloudy At All.. Most Of The Peeps Say their Dying…lmao, In Plus ONE!. I Don’t Really Know What To Talk About Now.. Good Day Mates.:D

4:04am
Just Finished My Shift, I Kept Falling Asleep. There Was This Nauyajuaq That Kept Going Around The Ship, It Looked Like It Wanted to Attempt A Landing, but When It Got Close Enough, It Would Just Turn Around And Kept Coming Back, It Even Got Creepy..
Going To Bed. So Long Suckers.

B

Sorry I Didnt See The Queen In London, We Were Always Too Busy.

Well. i am now in Svalbard!! Reminds me of home! i mean the weather, not the mountains:( But Still Cool!

We Just Got In Today, Wednesday The 13th Of September.

We left London at 7pm, london time, so that would be 11 in the morning in chester.

We Went through Stolkholm Sweden, Where Abba And Matts Sunden Was Originally From. Then We Passed Through Oslo Norway and Tromso Norway. Now We’re Finilly In Longyearbine Svalbard!! Yay!”.

So We Are Now In A Youth Centre. Its awesome here, its like a house, it has a foos ball table, a pool table up stairs, couches, a tv, a Dj area, a room just to hang out, i guess, oh and a washroom:P.. And We Should Be Setting sail Tomorrow!, Were staying at a hotel, for tonight. It has lots of seal skins, seal skins almost every where!. Oh and we went to a museum. Most if not all of the animals here are like the ones from home, but they have raindeer, and we have caribou. Their raindeer are TINY!, i mean their fat, but they have short lags!, their like 4 feet tall to the head..lol.

So, ill be answering you all, 20th of september, miss you all.

bye.

B!

So far, i’ve been very busy. We had a launch 2 days ago. At the launch we did a movement dance thingy, i qiuvaaq and the others moved with it.

After that we went boating and was vidoe taped so i think it’ll show. i hope you guys saw all the interviews i had to do since i was here.

Oh, And Almost Forgot!, make sure all of you, see my video, that should show on thurday the 20th of sept at 10 O’clock. I Should be on at 10:30 in the same morning, answering your questions.

I hope ya’ll ive me some awesome quesions, that will give me more to actually think about. And with some of the questions, i should be answerin with a video!.

Miss you guys, see you soon.

B

Tune in for Doriana’s video diary broadcast

Thurs 20th Sept, 3pm GMT (10am Nunavut)
Thank you for all your questions! Doriana will be posting a simple piece to camera from Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic to let you know how she’s getting on, what she is working on and responding to the questions below. If you are a pupil at Victor Sammurtok School make sure you get a chance to watch Doriana’s broadcast in assembly or class time.
Watch Doriana’s video diary »

Live QA following the broadcast

Thurs 20th Sept, 3.30pm GMT (10.30am Nunavut)
Following the broadcast Doriana will be online live from the Arctic for 30 minutes to hear your responses and to answer any questions.
Join Doriana’s Live QA »

Doriana, Shona and Amélie set off on their Cape Farewell journey by meeting the Canadian Minister for Environment, The Honourable John Baird with Rebecca Zalatan and Martin Rose from the British Council, Canada.

The 3 Students were also wished bon voyage by all their felllow students at a special launch for the team.

“Hi I’m Doriana. It’s almost summertime… it’s going to be hot and I hate it.” Meet Doriana in footage from the workshops at Victor Sammurtok School and hunting caribou near Igluligaarjuk in Nunavut.  
(Duration: 46 secs)

Viewing Inuktitut
In order to display syllabic Inuktitut characters, you must have a font on your computer that contains these characters. When no syllabic Inuktitut font is present (or you’re using the wrong Inuktitut font) the text will appear as question marks, rectangles, or as meaningless combinations of Roman letters, numbers and punctuation. If you have Inuktitut fonts installed on your computer you should be able to see the following text.

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Get a free Inuktitut font
There are different ways of displaying Inuktitut on websites, but our site isn’t handling Unicode very well at the moment, so we’re sticking with Legacy (Non-Unicode) fonts for now. If you can’t see a line of interesting characters above then you don’t have the right font yet. Download the Nunacom font below (Non-Unicode Inuktitut font).
Download Nunacom »

Online Inuktitut dictionaries and translations
I don’t know how good they are (we’ll have to wait to ask Doriana) but here’s a few links to some interesting tools.
Online translator »
Nunavut Living Dictionary »
Inuktitut Computing (useful links) »

Doriana
Victor Sammurtok School, Chesterfield Inlet (Igluligaarjuk) Nunavut, Canada

Science Project
Doriana wants to investigate and understand the traditional Inuit “elders” perception of climate change and the changes that are happening to their environments in order to compare them with current scientific views on the topic. In Svalbard she is looking specifically at weather patterns over time.

Art Project
Doriana sings in the ancient Inuit tradition of ‘throat-singing’. She will create songs inspired by her experiences on the voyage and perform them. (See Doriana throat singing in the Canada documentary on the website!)